Synodic month length 29.59 days

Length of current 260 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter than next lunation 261 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 7 February 2021 Sunday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠53.8°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠53.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠87°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon after perigee

3 days after point of perigee on 3 February 2021 at 19:33 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 18 February 2021 at 10:22 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 368 449 km

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 00:29 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 21 February 2021 at 01:44 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

Moon before southern standstill

11 days after previous North standstill on 26 January 2021 at 15:39 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.898°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.953° in the next southern standstill on 8 February 2021 at 15:34 in ♑ Capricorn.